# pretexto

> Portuguese word · Noun · frequency rank #11,710

## Definitions
1. motivo ou causa aparente para realizar algo de mau

## Easily confused with
- **protesto** (https://plainspell.com/pt/vs/pretexto-vs-protesto)
- **pretérito** (https://plainspell.com/pt/vs/preterito-vs-pretexto)

## Common misspellings (12)
`pertexto`, `ppretexto`, `preetxto`, `pretetxo`, `pretexot`, `pretextto`, `pretexxto`, `prettexto`, `pretxeto`, `prretexto`, `prteexto`, `rpetexto`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/pt/word/pretexto